Lead QA Engineer

Job Description

DescriptionIn a world of rapidly evolving and advanced cyber threats, the security market requires advanced, yet easy to deploy solutions to meet customer needs and protect organizations. Qualys is leading this transformation with 100% SaaS based solutions. With over 3 billion annual scans, +50 Global F100 brands and over 8,800 customers, Qualys has become an indispensable asset for many organizations. The Qualys Cloud Platform specializes in providing a holistic view of the asset inventory and security vulnerabilities to an organization before they can be exploited. The Qualys brand is trusted by Microsoft, Dow Jones, Daimler, Facebook, GE, Home Depot, and many others.The Lead QA and Automation Engineer position in the group will own and maintain the test framework for the products owned by the group. At Qualys, we are developing products using industry-leading technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Flink, Ceph, microservices, etc. and are looking for passionate individuals responsible for ensuring that the products are robust and scalable with the highest level of quality and prformance. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys next generation microservices-based platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.Qualifications:1. Minimum 8 years of experience in testing distributed backend software architectures2. Solid experience in Linux system administration is required3. Experience in Python, Java programming are a must and additional knowledge with automation tools like Robot Framework is desired4. Experience with networking, storage, and virtualization are required. Understanding of network flows and packets is desirable.5. Good exposure to databases. Experience in writing and understanding DB queries6. Experience with caches, messaging systems, and NoSQL and relational databases is desirable7. Experience with microservices architecture using Kubernetes and Docker containers8. Good understanding of cloud-delivered applications is required9. Development experience in building test frameworks for automating the testing of platform components from functionality, stress, scalability, and performance standpoints10. Solid exposure to performance, scalability and load testing using tools like JMeter11. Experience working with web services with HTTP, HTTPS, REST APIs, and JSON12. Familiar with build processes, CI processes and managing QA Environments as well as working with tools like Git, Jenkins and Bamboo13. Experience working in a security domain is a plus14. Experience with Linux based monitoring technologies is a plus15. Exposure to DevOps technologies is a big plus16. Experience in delivering products/solutions is a plus.17. Demonstrable leadership qualities is a must.Responsibilities:1. Work closely with the engineering team to understand product architecture and functionality.2. Certifying builds of the products owned by the group to go into production3. Automate testing to a maximum extent to maintain consistency from the lab to production4. Build and maintain a framework for testing, and integrate into CI/CD pipeline5. Create and manage test plans and suites6. Take care of networking needs of QA setups by liaising between cloud services and corresponding appliances7. Measure and obtain various performance metrics of the products including network performance.8. Publish QA test pass/fail summary to management9. Maintain QA environments using Virtualization10. Take care of DevOps needs of the Group s lab facilities that will be built over time.11. Lead and guide junior engineers in the day to day QA functionalities12. Support escalated customer queries and reproduce customer scenariosEEO Employer/Vet/Disabled,

Keyskills :
performance metricsload testinglinux system administrationseleniumjavaweb services